Why not?
Kids ask questions all the time. That’s what they are supposed to do as their brains try to construct a model of reality. Occasionally, they ask difficult questions. The cliche is, “Why is the sky blue?” That’s an easy question, but not enough writers took physics.
“You don’t hit girls.”
Beyond the Black: Americans Push Back
We all need to refuse to consent. Since politicians are nothing more than bullies, such defiance will quickly cause them to back off. Both Illinois and St. Louis this week clearly proved this.
Good, we need more of this and perhaps the government will get back to just doing it’s job. This is not just happening in America.
“When my peers are found responsible for multiple instances of inadequate citation, they are often suspended for an academic year,” wrote the student who sits on Harvard’s honor council, which adjudicates peer academic-integrity violations. “When the president of their university is found responsible for the same types of infractions, the fellows of the Corporation ‘unanimously stand in support of’ her,” as the body declared in a Dec. 12 statement.
Why do so many New Years resolutions fail?
Until recently, psychologists believed that self-control—the ability to stick to and ultimately achieve long-term goals—worked like a muscle. Success was about whether you had enough willpower to achieve your goals. But new research suggests that keeping our resolutions depends more on the situations we choose to put ourselves in.
Psychology and other soft sciences shouldn’t get too fond of analogies or their theories. They liked this so much that for decades, tons of papers were written about this explained human nature.
If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again this year.
His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity.
Architectural Digest: Interior Race Theory
When we talk about diversity in design and architecture, there’s often a call for decolonizing the space. Everyone is fully aware that the landscape of the field needs to change, but what about rebuilding the foundation?
I might enjoy living in a yurt or a wattle-and-daub mud hut, but this article is dumb. When I was in college, the engineering students thought that the architecture students were working harder than we were. It looks like Diversity, Inclusion and Equity has infected their programs. It doesn’t take many diversity students to ruin a field since the student can never be criticized.
Guardian: Coroner calls for action, will Google and Amazon have the wisdom to ignore her?
Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and bought the poison that killed her on the internet, a coroner has said.
WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn
WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn
The university system’s board of regents voted unanimously to terminate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow during a closed session Wednesday evening. UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan will serve as interim chancellor following Gow’s dismissal, university system leaders said.
What could Gow have done that was so bad?
Scientific American: Theory that Man is the Hunter
Take a moment to appreciate the difficulties faced by a biologist. Retain your integrity and possibly lose your job, or advocate for Gender Identity Theory and try to act like the most obvious facts about humans and every other mammal are not true.
It’s much easier for anthropologists. They aren’t a hard science and their integrity was never cherished. They can sleep at night knowing that when this fetish goes out of favor, they will never be called to retract anything.
It’s Christmas Eve, and if I’m honest, Christmas music generally isn’t great. My condolences to anyone who ever worked retail during Christmas.
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